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Introduction

BIND 9.8.7rc1 is the first release candidate for BIND 9.8.7.

This document summarizes changes from BIND9.8.6to BIND 9.8.7rc1. Changes since the previous development release are marked with asterisks (**). Please see the CHANGES file in the source code release for a complete list of all changes.

Download

The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found on our web site at http://www.isc.org/downloads/. There you will find additional information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Security Fixes

Treat an all zero netmask as invalid when generating the localnets acl to work around a bug on the Windows platform.[CVE-2013-6230] [RT #34687]

Fix crashes when serving some NSEC3 signed zones. memcpy was incorrectly
called with overlapping ranges, resulting in malformed names being
generated on some platforms. This could cause INSIST failures. (CVE
2014-0591) [RT #35120] **

Feature Changes

Add the ability to specify ndots to "nslookup". [RT #34711]

Check that EDNS subnet client options are well formed. [RT #34718]

"named" now preserves the capitalization of names when responding to queries. [RT #34737]

Fix a "host" tool problem with converting UTF-8 textname to IDN encoding by
handling "." as a search list element when IDN support is enabled. [RT
#35133] **

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at http://www.isc.org/donate/.